JINBE’S DREAM AND HIS ULTIMATE RIVAL Theory

In this theory, I would tackle about Jinbe’s possible backstory way before he became a member of Fisher Tiger’s Sun Pirates and his original dream in which he would achieve by sailing with the Strawhat Pirates.

Basically this is Jinbe’s “real” backstory, the other backstories where he was included back in the Fishman Island Arc is actually the backstories of Queen Otohime and Fisher Tiger respectively.

Let’s start.

Firstly, let’s all examine Jinbe’s childhood sketch.

Alright, the first thing you would immediately notice with Jinbe’s outfit is that he is wearing a Karate Uniform but the clothes are torn off and stitched up.

And Jinbe also is filled with banded wounds and seems really dirty from what he was portrayed.

With this things, we can make assumptions:

We could assume that Jinbe is a rowdy and troublemaking kid, and the torn clothes signifies that he don’t really follow his master’s orders of just using “martial arts” when its needed.

Jinbe seems to just fight anyone and use martial arts even in street fights. It was confirmed in the manga that Jinbe, Arlong and Fisher Tiger grew up at the shady side of Fishman Island which is the Fishman Island District so it’s safe to assume that Jinbe grew up in a rough neighborhood and grew up on getting to street fights everyday.

I would assume that Jinbe had a master who tried to keep him from getting into trouble by teaching him Fishman Karate.

And I would assume that Fishman Karate master had 2 more students aside from Jinbe, i’ll be discussing these 2 other students one by one.

Jinbe wears a Karate Uniform, I think its obvious who wears the same uniform as Jinbe.

Yes, it’s Hack the Revolutionary Fishman.

And he is Jinbe’s first classmate.

A lot of One Piece fans were disappointed on the Fishman Island Arc, mainly because of underwhelming villains, but the other reason was, because the heavily hinted Fishmen Karate Dojo was not shown.
Well, there a reason why and because its going to be shown in Jinbe’s backstory

Jinbe and Hack’s master’s dream is to spread the art of Fishmen Karate and bridge the gap of division between humans and fishmen by competing and winning tournaments in order to show that the fishmen are capable of winning fights through pride and honor.

Jinbe and Hack acquired that philosophy, but that never sat well with the 3rd student of their master.

This guy.

“Heavy Drinker” Vasco Shot.

Unlike their master and like the previous Fishman renegades Arlong and Hody Jones, Vasco Shot is another one of those Fishmen who went astray from the real issue between humans and fishmen.

But Vasco Shot is way different than Hody and Arlong.

While Arlong hates humans, he will never hurt his own.
Hody’s hate for humans also extended to the fishmen who sympathizes even a bit to human, especially to the followers of Queen Otohime.

Vasco Shot basically looks everyone the same, as long he can have something to gain from them, but unless Vasco can gain anything from someone, whether its fishmen or human, they are all trash in his eyes.

Basically, Vasco Shot fell to the worldly desires that his master kept Jinbe and Hack from.

And Vasco Shot committed the gravest sin of all.

Vasco Shot killed his master with a few amounts of bribe (booze and money) from humans in order to let the humans freely infiltrate Fishmen Island to either raid towns and kidnap mermaids.

Basically, what I would assume is that there are 2 main “bodyguards” of Fishmen Island that time.

Fisher Tiger and Jinbe, Hack and Vasco’s master.

Remember that at that time, Queen Otohime is probably as small girl, and Tiger and the Master are teens.

The thing is, Fisher Tiger at that time of the said raid by humans, he is not on the island, so the Master was left to fend off any attackers.

And Vasco Shot killed that master, so humans can freely enter the island.

Jinbe tried protecting his master but Vasco Shot is way more powerful than him at that time….this is where Jinbe got his famous “lightning” scar.

After these events, Vasco Shot probably escaped up to the surface and became a pirate and done some horrific deeds until he got captured.

While Jinbe reached a breaking point and started on hating humans as well, and Hack also left the island and as we know, he ended up in the Revolutionaries.

This is probably what ignited Fisher Tiger’s hate for human as well deep inside, not to mention he became a slave.

So basically, after Jinbe joins the Strawhat Crew, that would be the first time in a long while that Jinbe will meet Vasco face to face.

It’s the reason why right before Blackbeard and his crew came to kill Whitebeard, Jinbe was the one who Oda decided to carry Luffy and be out of the fight vicinity.

And Jinbe fainted after that, so he never saw Vasco Shot.

So basically aside from Jinbe wanting to bridge the gap between the humans and fishmen, his other dream (which I would make a theory of Strawhat Pirates’ “developed” dreams soon) is to avenge his master against Vasco Shot and clean his master’s and Fishman Karate’s name which Vasco Shot disrespected.

Oh, and if you guys are wondering what kind of fish Vasco Shot is?

He is a Blob Fish.

LOL! 😀

*Theory by beck26